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Urban food security, urban resilience and climate change - weADAPT

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Municipal Strategic Statements: that include a commitment to support thepreservation of agricultural <strong>and</strong> <strong>food</strong> producing l<strong>and</strong> in the municipality: Casey,Wyndham, Swan Hill <strong>and</strong> Moorabool Councils have all done this.Bacchus Marsh Horticultural Area: the Moorabool Council resisted pressure fromdevelopers to rezone prime <strong>food</strong> growing areas for sub-division <strong>and</strong> <strong>urban</strong>development.L<strong>and</strong>share Australia: brings together people who have a passion for home-grown<strong>food</strong>, connecting those who have l<strong>and</strong> to share with those who need l<strong>and</strong> for cultivating<strong>food</strong>. The concept of L<strong>and</strong>share began in the UK in 2009 <strong>and</strong> has since grown into athriving community of more than 57,000 growers, sharers <strong>and</strong> helpers across thecountry.Northern Rivers Food Links: is a collaborative partnership between seven NorthernRivers Councils <strong>and</strong> Rous Water that aims to secure a sustainable <strong>food</strong> future for theregion. The Partnership has a budget of $1,899,080 to implement a range of initiativesduring 2010 <strong>and</strong> 2011 including:village showcase projects;marketing <strong>and</strong> education;distribution projects;<strong>food</strong> production <strong>and</strong> distribution in Indigenous communities project;sustainable agriculture projects;a local government resource kit http:/www.northernrivers<strong>food</strong>links.com.au/.Penrith Food Project: is one of the longest established <strong>food</strong> <strong>security</strong> projects inAustralia with the goal of ‘increasing <strong>and</strong> improving the supply of affordable,acceptable, nutritious <strong>and</strong> safe <strong>food</strong> to residents <strong>and</strong> workers in the Penrith LGA, withparticular concern for disadvantaged groups’. The Penrith Food Project includes(among others) the objectives of conserving high quality agricultural l<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong>increasing local production of <strong>food</strong>. Over the last ten plus years the project has alsoinfluenced the development of a number of other <strong>food</strong> policy projects <strong>and</strong> networks inNSW including the Sydney Fresh Food Bowl Network; Hawkesbury Food Program; <strong>and</strong>Hawkesbury Harvest.Hawkesbury Harvest: is described in Budge & Slade 2009, pp. 5052. HawkesburyHarvest was established as an incorporated organisation in 2000 covering three localgovernment areas (including Hawkesbury). Its strategic goals are: business <strong>and</strong>industry engagement in agribusiness – promotion <strong>and</strong> communications, productdevelopment, advertising, merch<strong>and</strong>ising, regional br<strong>and</strong>ing, income generation,industry members, education <strong>and</strong> support.While many of these initiatives have been established in recent years, some wereformed decades ago. The oldest community garden in Perth (APACE) was establishedin 1987 in one of the poorer parts of Fremantle, to serve the needs of recent migrants<strong>and</strong> those without gardens of their own. The Centre for Education <strong>and</strong> Research inEnvironmental Strategies (CERES) in Melbourne is not only well known, but has alsobeen in existence for many years, <strong>and</strong> demonstrates vividly the opportunities forintegrating a wide range of educative <strong>and</strong> productive activities. Given issues of <strong>climate</strong><strong>change</strong>, <strong>food</strong> <strong>security</strong> <strong>and</strong> the growth of <strong>urban</strong> areas, there is clearly a need for a more<strong>Urban</strong> <strong>food</strong> <strong>security</strong>, <strong>urban</strong> <strong>resilience</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>climate</strong> <strong>change</strong> 92

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